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Richard Penny Vail

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Richard Penny Vail

Birth
Peconic, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Death
12 Apr 1964 (aged 71)
Greenport, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Burial
Cutchogue, Suffolk County, New York, USA Add to Map
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RICHARD PENNY VAIL

Richard Penny Vail, 71, of the North Road, Peconic, died Sunday afternoon at Eastern Long Island Hospital, Greenport, following a heart attack.

He was born in Peconic on May 15, 1892, the son of Floyd Wiggins Vail and Lizzy Penny Vail.

A partner in one of the oldest new car dealerships in Suffolk, he was born and raised in Suffolk and spent most of his life in Peconic.

He was a member of the F&AM Masonic Lodge No 349 of Greenport.

Surviving are his wife, Ruth H Vail; a son Floyd; 2 daughters, Mrs Rebecca Terry and Mrs Alicia Reeve; four sisters, Mrs Edith Webb, Mrs Lizbeth Dickerson, Mrs Ruth Goldsmith and Mrs Alicia Fanning; two brothers, Carl E and William F Vail and nine grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2pm Wednesday at the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church with arrangement under the direction of the DeFriest Funeral Home. Interment was in Cutchogue Cemetery with Masonic services at the grave.

Mr Vail had operated automobile dealerships in Riverhead and Peconic since 1919.

Obit was published in The Long Island Traveler- Mattituck Watchman on Thurs Apr 16, 1964 p3.
RICHARD PENNY VAIL

Richard Penny Vail, 71, of the North Road, Peconic, died Sunday afternoon at Eastern Long Island Hospital, Greenport, following a heart attack.

He was born in Peconic on May 15, 1892, the son of Floyd Wiggins Vail and Lizzy Penny Vail.

A partner in one of the oldest new car dealerships in Suffolk, he was born and raised in Suffolk and spent most of his life in Peconic.

He was a member of the F&AM Masonic Lodge No 349 of Greenport.

Surviving are his wife, Ruth H Vail; a son Floyd; 2 daughters, Mrs Rebecca Terry and Mrs Alicia Reeve; four sisters, Mrs Edith Webb, Mrs Lizbeth Dickerson, Mrs Ruth Goldsmith and Mrs Alicia Fanning; two brothers, Carl E and William F Vail and nine grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2pm Wednesday at the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church with arrangement under the direction of the DeFriest Funeral Home. Interment was in Cutchogue Cemetery with Masonic services at the grave.

Mr Vail had operated automobile dealerships in Riverhead and Peconic since 1919.

Obit was published in The Long Island Traveler- Mattituck Watchman on Thurs Apr 16, 1964 p3.


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